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Chapter 211: The Grand Finale
"The sky is the Qian, the earth is the Kun, yin and yang, the five elements, Urgent Order, rise!" I shouted loudly, biting my finger and pressing it on the Ground, then raised both hands simultaneously!
In an instant, ten little ghosts were pulled out from the Underworld. I took out ten Paper Figurines, allowing the little ghosts to possess them, then drew eyes on them. I then shouted, "Destroy him!"
On the other side, Guo Yongjia also summoned ten little ghosts to create ten Paper Figurines.
I manipulated my ten fingers to control the ten Paper Figurines charging towards Guo Yongjia, stealing a glance at the Rooster and Hen out of the corner of my eye.
The Rooster used the most primitive fighting style, grappling with the Nine-Eyed Dream Demon, constantly scratching with its claws and biting with its beak. Roars and screams echoed from its mouth. In such a brief moment, both it and the Dream Demon were covered in wounds, blood splattering everywhere.
Meanwhile, the Hen's battle with Bingqing had reached a fever pitch. Ghost Fire and negative energy continuously formed mist, almost instantly enveloping the Bagua yin-yang formation in dense fog.
At the same time, I directed my Paper Figurines to pounce on Guo Yongjia, while his Paper Figurines stood in front of mine. It was ten Paper Figurines against ten Paper Figurines. Besides testing the combat skills of the controllers, it also depended on the strength of the summoned little ghosts.
My fingers alternated positions. After a brief contact with Guo Yongjia, my Paper Figurines clearly gained the upper hand, thanks to the teachings of Black and White Impermanence. Seeing that things were not going well, Guo Yongjia hurriedly severed the lines between his fingers. He bit his tongue and spat a mouthful of yang blood onto the Ground, then drew a circle with talisman paper around himself while shouting loudly. The surrounding talisman papers quickly ignited.
Fire is the best weapon against Paper Figurines. Guo Yongjia surely knew that his Paper Figurines would not hold up against mine, which is why he resorted to such a foolproof life-saving measure.
But was it really foolproof?
I bit my tongue and spat two mouthfuls of blood into my palms. Then I slowly lifted the lines; blood flowed from my palms onto the lines and gradually soaked into the bodies of the Paper Figurines.
The blood of a living person is a deadly weapon for ghosts, especially since I am still a virgin, completely different from Guo Yongjia, who has been married for several years.
As my blood flowed onto the Paper Figurines, they went wild as if they had taken drugs. In almost an instant, they overwhelmed Guo Yongjia's ten Paper Figurines, then recklessly charged towards him. Compared to Guo Yongjia's flames, my blood clearly posed a greater threat to them.
My ten Paper Figurines charged simultaneously towards Guo Yongjia's fire ring, startling him because he was already surrounded by flames. Once my Paper Figurines bravely rushed in despite the danger, there would only be one outcome for Guo Yongjia: self-immolation!
However, something unexpected happened!
Guo Yongjia suddenly seemed like a different person, revealing a fierce expression. He then pulled out a pouch from his pocket, spat blood into it, and the entire area was instantly filled with a howl!
It was a roar that seemed to come from hell! It sounded both joyful and excited, yet also bloody.
Next, to my shock, a red-haired female ghost jumped out of Guo Yongjia's Cosmic Bag!
The ghost had long red hair flowing in the wind and a red dress fluttering in the air. Her face resembled that of a burned corpse, looking extremely hideous. She shouted at me, "Come to your doom!"
Immediately, the ghost floated up and lunged towards me.
This ghost was not Liu Yiyi; I didn't know who she was. Liu Yiyi had died completely naked, while the red-haired female ghost could only materialize from women who had died on specific dark days. Red female ghosts are far more vicious than any other ghosts; they are bloodthirsty and possess a strong desire for revenge against humans, even resorting to cannibalism among ghosts.
I truly had no way to deal with such a malevolent spirit in a short time, so I chose to call for help!
I took out the Ghost Seal and placed it on the ground to create a seal. Holding the Ghost Seal aloft slowly, black and white ghostly figures appeared on either side.
"Little Yin Yang, you..." Bai Wuchang's words were cut short as he spotted the red-haired female ghost.
"Hey!" Hei Wuchang shouted loudly and rushed forward. Bai Wuchang followed suit without wasting any time, wielding his crying stick as he charged alongside Hei Wuchang.
This red-haired female ghost was indeed formidable; even facing the Black and White Impermanence, she showed no fear! As for Black and White Impermanence, I wasn't worried at all; I couldn't believe that these two major Ghost Messengers couldn't handle a single red-haired female ghost!
At that moment, within the Bagua formation, a subtle change occurred—the meddlesome spirit actually gained the upper hand!
Bingqing was almost forced to fight! Under several exchanges, the Ghost Fire on Bingqing was completely suppressed by the Chicken Woman. I believe that it won't be long before Chicken Woman achieves victory. I suspect that it is very likely she has gained strength after devouring Chen Xiong's soul; otherwise, she would only be able to fight Bingqing to a draw at most.
On the other side, the situation for Rooster was not so ideal. Both it and the Dream Demon were covered in wounds, their fur stained red with blood, and bloody injuries were visible everywhere. However, neither beast gave up, still tearing at each other's wounds.
"Guo Yongjia! Today is your day of death!" I shouted, charging towards Guo Yongjia with a frying pan in hand.
The frying pan, besides being useful against ghosts and zombies, I believed could also be effective in fighting people.
Guo Yongjia was startled; he clearly did not expect a real person to engage in combat. Seeing me charge at him, he could only take off his belt and start to flee.
"You coward, if you have the guts, don't run!" I yelled as I chased after him.
As Guo Yongjia fled, he looked back at me. One of his legs tripped over the Ground, and without hesitation, I rushed up and began to rain blows on Guo Yongjia, the frying pan making a delightful sound as it struck his body.
I hated Guo Yongjia. Although I didn't know why I hated him so much, I just did. So I hit him mercilessly, regardless of where I struck; as long as I raised my hand, I brought the frying pan down.
In his panic, Guo Yongjia suddenly shouted loudly: "Shanshan! Save me!"
His voice was loud enough that Yan Shanshan trembled upon hearing it. At that moment, I also glanced at Yan Shanshan.
"Die!" Suddenly came Guo Yongjia's voice. I quickly looked down to see Guo Yongjia, who had been lying on the Ground, suddenly get up and stab a small knife gleaming coldly into my chest.
"Die!" Guo Yongjia's face twisted with rage as he held the knife with both hands, pushing it deeper into my chest while twisting the handle to widen my wound.
I felt my strength draining away continuously, blood flowing out of my body!
"Even in death, I'll drag you down with me!" I didn't know where the strength came from, but somehow I raised my right hand and brought the frying pan down onto Guo Yongjia's forehead.
Guo Yongjia staggered back several steps after being struck by my frying pan, and at that moment, my ten Paper Figurine almost instantly surrounded Guo Yongjia.
"Kill him!" I shouted loudly.
Upon receiving the command, the ten Paper Figurine jumped onto Guo Yongjia, attacking him with punches and kicks. Although the little Paper Figurine were only the size of a palm, their strength was not to be underestimated; after all, there was a ghost hidden inside!
Guo Yongjia was almost instantly knocked to the Ground, and at the same time, I felt a chill behind me. Just as I was about to turn around, I heard a nagging voice.
"Simida, I'm so tired! Can you give me a hug?"
I looked back and saw that the nagging girl had somehow come up behind me, and Bingqing was nowhere to be seen. The nagging girl had transformed into human form; she licked her sexy red lips and winked at me, "Come on!"
"Go help the rooster!" I said.
The nagging girl gave me a resentful glance and then flew towards the rooster. As for the two messengers of death, they had also vanished, along with that red-haired female ghost.
"Loser!" Murong Duoduo shouted from the other side.
Meanwhile, Yan Shanshan was rolling her wheelchair towards me without a care in the world.
I glanced at Guo Yongjia, who was lying on the ground incapacitated by the Paper Figurine, and suddenly felt an urge to strike him again. However, upon hearing Yan Shanshan call out 'husband,' the frying pan in my hand fell to the Ground.
Guo Yongjia was injured, and so was I. Yet at this moment, Yan Shanshan's concern was still for Guo Yongjia, not for me! Although I always regarded Yan Shanshan as my goddess, unfortunately, in her eyes, I would forever be just an insignificant little person.
For some reason, at that moment, my heart suddenly calmed down; my tense nerves relaxed. However, just as I sighed in relief, I felt a wave of oxygen deprivation hit my brain, causing me to stagger back several steps before ultimately collapsing heavily onto the Ground.
At the moment I fell, the ten Paper Figurine clinging to Guo Yongjia lost their anchor and fled from him, leaving only ten little Paper Figurine stuck to Guo Yongjia.
"Husband!" After Yan Shanshan rolled her wheelchair to Guo Yongjia's side, she hurriedly stood up from the wheelchair, but stumbled and fell beside Guo Yongjia.
"Are you okay?" Murong Duoduo also came to my side, helping me up. She quickly pulled out one hand to press on the bloody wound on my chest, "Loser! Don't scare me!"
"I'm not going to die, just a bit tired," I said wearily.
"No, you can't sleep!" Murong Duoduo anxiously shook my head and said, "No sleeping, no sleeping!"
Her shaking made my head spin. My already weak body felt like it was losing vitality rapidly.
"Shanshan..." At that moment, Guo Yongjia held Yan Shanshan's hand and said softly, "Do you love me?"
Yan Shanshan nodded tearfully, "Husband, don't leave me, don't leave me!"
"If you love me, you can do anything for me, right?" Guo Yongjia suddenly spoke.
Hearing this, I realized something was wrong. My eyes, which were slowly closing, suddenly widened as if I had been jolted back to life. I straightened up from Murong Duoduo's embrace.
"Wife! This will be the last thing I do for you. It might hurt a little, but I promise it will be quick!" Guo Yongjia said with a smile before suddenly stabbing a small knife into Yan Shanshan's abdomen.
"Bastard!" I shouted loudly.
Murong Duoduo's face was filled with anger as well. As for Yan Shanshan, that foolish woman actually looked at the knife in her abdomen and then at Guo Yongjia, smiling as she said, "Husband, if you can see my heart, then you must see that in my heart, there is only ever one you! It's all... just you!"
Guo Yongjia did not respond to Yan Shanshan but suddenly turned fierce and swung his right hand violently.
At that moment, a spray of blood burst forth, leaving a long streak as it splattered from Guo Yongjia's movement.
Guo Yongjia's small knife was the kind sold on the street, not very long, and using it to peel fruit was already a challenge. Yet, it had indeed cut through Yan Shanshan's belly.
"I'll kill you!" I shouted, tears streaming down my face, ignoring the pain in my body as I leaped from the ground and charged at Guo Yongjia.
However, as I rushed towards Guo Yongjia, Yan Shanshan suddenly lifted her head slowly. Instead of showing any signs of pain, her face revealed excitement. She glanced at Guo Yongjia and then leaped from the ground to pounce on him.
Everything happened too quickly for me to react.
Yan Shanshan, with her belly cut open, actually opened her mouth wide and bit off a piece of flesh from Guo Yongjia's neck. Then she slightly raised her head, her mouth full of blood and flesh. After chewing a few times, she lowered her head again to take another bite.
"This..." Murong Duoduo had come to my side, supporting me while looking incredulously at everything happening before us.
All of this was astonishing and perplexing, even incomprehensible!
Yan Shanshan, with her abdomen pierced, was actually eating Guo Yongjia!
They were a couple!
And even if they weren't a couple, how could someone eat another person? Moreover, Yan Shanshan was a delicate girl, timid and gentle; how could she do such a thing?
"Delicious, delicious!" Yan Shanshan said cheerfully after taking more than ten bites while looking at me.
Now, Yan Shanshan had a bizarre smile on her face, covered in blood, still gnawing on the flesh of Guo Yongjia, who had long since lay dead on the ground.
Yan Shanshan slowly stood up; her intestines instantly spilled out from the wound in her abdomen. As she walked towards me, her intestines trailed behind her on the ground.
"His meat is delicious!" Yan Shanshan said as she approached me. "Is your meat delicious?"
"Who are you?" I couldn't believe that the person in front of me, Yan Shanshan, was really her.
She walked toward me step by step, dragging her intestines on the ground, which were cut by the stones, leaking out some filthy substance that reeked. However, Yan Shanshan showed no sign of stopping. She approached me slowly, raising her bloodied hands.
Murong Duoduo seemed a bit scared; she had just hidden behind me, and I instinctively blocked her. Perhaps due to excessive blood loss or exhaustion, I felt dizzy, my eyelids heavy, and my whole body weak.
"Meat, meat!" Yan Shanshan limped toward me, blood spilling everywhere.
"Who... are you? Get away from her body!" I said weakly.
She slowly reached my front and then placed her right hand on my shoulder, opening her mouth to bite at my neck.
Of course, I wanted to resist, but I was too weak. In fact, if it weren't for Murong Duoduo supporting me from behind, I would have collapsed long ago.
Am I going to be eaten?
I thought of countless ways I could die—like finding a wife and dying from exhaustion, offending a certain spirit and being locked in the night, or encountering an evil ghost and dying from possession—but I never imagined I would be bitten to death and eaten alive! And that person was none other than my goddess Yan Shanshan.
"Ah!" Murong Duoduo, who had been hiding behind me, suddenly screamed. Then she unexpectedly moved away from behind me. Since I was leaning on her, when she left, I lost my support and instantly fell to the ground.
Yan Shanshan clearly also had some physical exhaustion; she pounced on me but still desperately tried to climb up to bite my neck.
I knew that this time I was probably really done for!
"Bang!"
The sudden sound made my almost-closed eyes open as I looked in the direction of the noise. Murong Duoduo was holding a frying pan, still in a swinging motion, and Yan Shanshan's head had been struck with a large hole from the blow.
In other words, just when I was about to be devoured by Yan Shanshan, it was Murong Duoduo who saved me. However, in my blurry vision, besides Murong Duoduo, there suddenly appeared many more 'figures', including Ding Jin, Guo Dong, Xiao Bai Lian, and many others I had never seen before. Strangely enough, among these figures was also Guo Yongjia, who smiled at me.
"Master Cao! It seems that in the end, I still won!"
Guo Yongjia's mocking laughter echoed in my ears, and eventually, my eyelids closed...
Three months later, I woke up from my slumber to find myself in a pristine white room.
"Pervert Cao, you finally woke up!" Yan Ruolan's beautiful face suddenly appeared in my line of sight, and she looked at me with a beaming smile.
I nodded!
"Great! Great!" Yan Ruolan pounced on me, hugging me tightly while repeatedly saying 'great'. As she spoke, she began to cry.
My head felt a bit foggy, but seeing Yan Ruolan cry made my heart ache. I simply raised my hand to gently stroke her head and looked around at the white walls, sighing inwardly: It's good to be alive!
I could confirm one thing: I was still alive.
On the day of my discharge, Yan Ruolan, Murong Shanshan, and Gu Zixu all came to pick me up. They took me back to that paper-making shop, and I briefly asked about what had happened that day.
In fact, reflecting on that day's events left me with many questions.
People from the Eight Great Families had come, all invited by Guo Yongjia! Did Guo Yongjia really go through all that trouble just to have them witness something? To help set up a Bagua Yin-Yang formation?
In front of the Eight Great Families, Guo Yongjia summoned dream demons and red-haired ghosts; didn't he fear that the people from the Eight Great Families would eliminate him?
I remember seeing Guo Yongjia, Guo Dong, and Ding Jin before I lost consciousness. What was that all about? I swear I wasn't mistaken; those three 'people' definitely appeared, along with many others I didn't recognize.
I was eager to know the answer, but to my surprise, Yan Ruolan had a vague memory of that day. She only remembered that I collapsed on the ground, and then the people from the Eight Great Families suddenly put away their magical tools and started fighting chaotically. She merely took the opportunity to bring me away.
As for Murong Duoduo, she said that after she fought Yan Shanshan, she suddenly fainted, and when she woke up, she found herself back in her family. Her father had locked her up for over a month, but she managed to escape.
Gu Zixu's description of that day was very simple: arrogant and conceited!
I don't know if he said that for me to hear or for others, but no matter how I asked, Gu Zixu was unwilling to reveal a single word.
Regarding the thirty-eight police officers buried in the cemetery, their graves were located within the Bagua Yin-Yang formation that day. I guessed that since the matter had come to a conclusion and Guo Yongjia was indeed dead, they should also be able to rest in peace.
Speaking of the thirty-eight police officers, I naturally thought of their tragic deaths. They were brutally killed by someone, an act committed by humans and ghosts alike. However, until now, I still hadn't identified the true culprit. Gu Zixu once said that after my duel, he would tell me who the real murderer was.
Gu Zixu recited a couplet for me:
Evil spirits harm the world,
Daoists and sorcerers capture them from all sides;
Short hands and legs burn incense and offer sacrifices,
One circle and two squares traverse the river of forgetfulness;
Right and wrong debated by thousands,
Karma circulates through heaven and earth;
I walk my own path through mountains and rivers,
Monsters and demons have heavy burdens ahead.
I haven't read much, so I didn't understand what it meant. However, since Murong Duoduo and Yan Ruolan were present at the time, I felt embarrassed to ask. I hoped they would ask on my behalf, but these two women seemed uninterested. Afterwards, whenever I had time, I would calm down to study it; unfortunately, I never got anywhere with it.
The paper-making shop's business gradually stabilized. Yan Ruolan, the owner of a good restaurant, chose to close her business and came to work at my paper-making shop. As for Murong Duoduo, she ultimately did not return with Gu Zixu. It was said that she lost her Yin-Yang Tears; not to mention the Great Deity of Life, even Shaosi Ming was not qualified anymore. The Murong family no longer needed her.
As for whether the Yin-Yang Tears were lost by Murong Duoduo, I don't know. All I know is that Yin-Yang Tears possess the power to transform decay into wonder. And on that day when Guo Yongjia pierced my chest and I bled so much yet survived—was it really a miracle?
The story of the paper shop continues, and business is getting better and better. In the suburban cemetery, I visit every holiday. Besides burning paper for my junior apprentice Pan Shenbao, I also visit the graves of Yan Shanshan, Liu Yiyi, Guo Yang, Grave of the Thirty-Eight Heroes, and Gu Zixu.
Five years later!
“Damn it, who washed my frying pan!”
“Murmur Duo Duo!”
“It wasn’t me, it was Ruolan!”
“It wasn’t me, it was that… busybody! Yes, it was the busybody!”
“Oh dear, oh dear, Simida, do you still not believe me? So sad, this was clearly done by the rooster!”
“Roar!”
“Bullshit! Would a rooster wash a pot?”
“Daddy Mommy, stop arguing!”
“Brother and sister Daddy Mommy, Uncle Wang is here!”
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